ISTE Educator Standards
ISTE Student Standards:
ISTE Educator Standards:
2.1 Learner-Educators continually improve their
practice by learning from and with others and
exploring proven and promising practices that
leverage technology to improve student learning.
2.2 Leader-Educators seek out opportunities for
leadership to support student empowerment and
success and to improve teaching and learning.
2.3 Citizen-Educators inspire students to positively
contribute to and responsibly participate in the
digital world.
2.4 Collaborate-Educators dedicate time to
collaborate with both colleagues and students to
improve practice, discover and share resources and
ideas, and solve problems.
2.5 Designer-Educators design authentic, learner
driven activities and environments that recognize
and accommodate learner variability.
2.6 Facilitator-Educators facilitate learning with
technology to support student achievement of the
ISTE Standards for Students.
2.7 Analyst-Educators understand and use data to
drive their instruction and support students in
achieving their learning goals.
Noted similarities:
Educators have similar standards in that they are continually learning. They
both are collaborating in ethical ways as citizens. They are also designers.
Noted differences: The educator is in charge of creating the environment for the students to learn think critically. The educator teaches
the student ethical practices and resources but it is up to the student to be the innovator.
1.1 Empowered Learner-Students leverage
technology to take and active role in choosing,
achieving, and demonstrating competency in their
learning goals, informed by the learning sciences.
1.2 Digital Citizen-Students recognize the rights,
responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning
and working in an interconnected digital world, and
they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and
ethical.
1.3 Knowledge Constructor-Students critically curate
a variety of resources using digital tools to construct
knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make
meaningful learning experiences for themselves and
others.
1.4 Innovative Designer-Students use a variety of
technologies within a design process to identify and
solve problems by creating new, useful or
imaginative solutions.
1.5 Computational Thinker-Students develop and
employ strategies for understanding and solving
problems in ways that leverage the power of
technological methods to develop and test solutions.
1.6 Creative Communicator-Students communicate
clearly and express themselves creatively for a
variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles,
formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.
1.7 Global Collaborator-Students use digital tools to
broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning
by collaborating with others and working effectively
in teams locally and globally.